

You can choose between different styles, like rule lines or grid lines. OneNote allows you to change the “background” of your paper, which makes it much easier to write and draw on. If you are using a stylus, it can be hard to write on a blank white paper.
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If you are using the OneNote Desktop app on your Windows tablet, make sure you enable Touch mode, which makes the OneNote application and other Office apps more touch friendly. Use touch mode on your OneNote Desktop App You can start directly from your Outlook calendar, or you can start from OneNote where you can scan for your appointments in Outlook. This adds automatically the subject, date, location, the participants, and a link to the Outlook item. You can not only send email to your OneNote notes, but you can also directly create meeting notes from Outlook appointments. Of course, it also integrates perfectly in Microsoft Outlook. Outlook IntegrationĪs already mentioned, OneNote does integrate into a lot of other Microsoft products. So if you want to take notes with a pen, I highly recommend you to buy a tablet with a digitizer pen. The downside of this, not only do you have to have the writing pen, but also the display of the device itself has to support the special pen. Which means that the screen can turn off the capacitive input during the note-taking, so you can put our hand down on the display while writing, or you can make use of different pressure inputs and an eraser at the top of the pen. The advantage of this technology is that the display can detect the pen input as different input.
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But there is another much better solution for this called digitizer pens like the Surface Pro has got one. A lot of tablets out there like the iPad do only support capacitive inputs like your fingers, to some vendors created capacitive pens which are simulating a finger. Taking notes using the keyboard works great, but sometimes taking notes with a pen is much more comfortable, especially when you add drawings to your notes. If you are looking for the source, you can find it very quickly. If you are copy-pasting something for a website into your OneNote, it does automatically add the source link to your note. This makes finding stuff very easy and straightforward, especially if you share notes with others. So if you read your notes, you can quickly jump to the position of the recording when you took the note.Ī great thing to work with your notes is also to link specific words and notes to websites, files, or other OneNote pages. The great thing if you record a class or session, OneNote does link the notes you have taken during the recording to the specific time.

Or you could take some great audio notes. You can do audio and video recording of classes, meetings or sessions with OneNote. You can also directly create a new Visio diagram from OneNote and add it to your notes. One of them is Visio if you have Visio installed on our computer you can add an existing Visio diagram to your notes. Visio IntegrationĪ lot of other Microsoft products to integrate into OneNote. While I was writing the document, I had to mention the sources as footnotes, and sometimes it’s hard to find the source of something you have found on the internet. With linked notes, I only had to check my nodes, and all the sources and references were linked. This is perfect, while I wrote a whitepaper for university and I had to do a lot of research I used this feature. This will automatically create a link to the page or office document you have open while you have taken note. While you are using the Dock to Desktop mode, you can enable Linked Note Taking. Your notes will stay on top of your desktop while you are working in other programs.

With the Dock to Desktop feature, you can keep your notes visible by anchoring a OneNote window to the side of your desktop. If you have more hidden features, leave a comment on the post. This post shows you why OneNote is awesome and shows you some of the hidden features you didn’t know about. In this case, I always show them OneNote, which is maybe one of the best keep secrets inside Microsoft. I get often asked by customers or friends about how I work and how I get things done. I organize my private life, my work, and university notes in OneNote. Well I know I usually blog more about Microsoft Datacenter and Cloud stuff, especially Hyper-V and System Center, but I am a huge fan of Microsoft’s Office Suite.
